connect to an https server and get a page in the style of “telnet host 80″
Contributed by Michilimackinac 
Tagged: OpenSSL This is a useful command for making connections to https servers for monitoring or testing
openssl s_client -connect host:443 -state -debug
GET / HTTP/1.0
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